Accord Building is our public workbench for learning about Australian heritage conflict and developing a careful post-law practice of response.
Key Concept
Heritage conflict is rarely only a legal dispute. It may involve discord in the fields of law, planning, memory, place, culture, governance, advocacy, activism, care, community attachment, public authority, and moral responsibility. When one field is made to answer for the whole, conflict can become more discordant.
Organisation
The work is organised around five main areas:
This section of the site gathers our developing HP Accord work. It is a research and practice-development project, not a legal advice service, heritage assessment service, campaign organisation, or claim to cultural authority. It is a place for learning out loud: reading, mapping, questioning, testing, and developing tools for understanding and responding to complex heritage conflict.
- Start Here introduces the purpose, boundaries, and way of using the Accord Building section.
- Learning Commons provides the eight-unit structure for studying Australian heritage conflict.
- Cases & Materials gathers reading notes, case notes, legal materials, public records, campaign materials, and sources.
- Practice Workbench holds the developing tools and methods of accord-building.
- Project Journal records the learning process as the work develops.
The central question running through this section is:
How can the active fields of heritage conflict be made more visible, more responsive, and more properly related?
